I am running FreeBSD 6.3 with Gnome and the Totem Music Player is installed by default. It cannot play DVD's however, as it says I need to install the necesssary plugins (Totem uses GStreamer 0.10.14).

I would use Ogle if you need really good dedicated DVD player. MPlayer and VLC are also solid swiss army knife solutions for playing video formats. They are just too bloated for me. I personally use Ogle as a DVD player and row ffmpeg to play the mpeg videos of my kids.

I would use Ogle if you need really good dedicated DVD player. MPlayer and VLC are also solid swiss army knife solutions for playing video formats. They are just too bloated for me. I personally use Ogle as a DVD player and row ffmpeg to play the mpeg videos of my kids.

The GStreamer codecs for Totem failed miserably; I get the exact error message as before installing them ("Totem doesn't have the appropriate plugins, please download them" etc). I've tried rebooting - same result.

After that I went for Ogle; everything went fine until at the very end of installation, when registering the product, it hit an error and aborted.

After that I kinda got into the sport of finding ONE player that would install AND work out of the box; so I went for MPlayer.

Everything went fine up until the last part, where it encountered the same problem as Ogle did, and aborted.

If my memory of the last time I got this message is correct, your libraries are out of date.

Update the ports tree (via portsnap/csup/cvs), then upgrade glib2 to a newer version. That should fix the linking errors with libgio; of course since everyone and their dog practically uses glib, you may want to update other related softwares and libraries as well, depending on how old your installed software is, and what you use. (e.g. gtk2 apps/libs)

I agree with TerryP. Totem works fine for me, as does MPlayer and VLC. What version of Gnome are you using? You should be on 2.22.3. If you are not, then you will have out-of-date libraries (and other bits and pieces).